Yep, they're a big money maker. No reason to stop. Plus, it's this special spiritual recharge where people see their friends and get a grasp of something bigger than just themselves. Oh, and by "special spiritual recharge" I mean they bring out the big guns, the big manipulation, and use it to reinforce what goes on every day to lock their members down.
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Anyone think Assemblies will stop?
by blownaway innot completely but the expensive renting of halls or assembly hall ownership.
maybe with streaming they could have assemblies at the kh and stream the program.
i bet they cut costs in a lot of ways.
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Time to remind JWs of this famous quote from CT Russell!
by stuckinarut2 inwith the ever present issue of the society seeming to run out of money, and constantly asking the flock for more donations, maybe it is time to revive this quote!.
the leaked financial dept videos that have done the rounds, clearly show the society is in desperate trouble financially.. so, where is the "almighty's hand"?
where is his ability to provide funds?
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Nice quote! I've always enjoyed that one in light of what they've become.
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Reg Pioneers went down around 50,000 ?
by Wakanda inyesterday's wt study (june 17) said: .
records show that in the last five years, the average number of regular pioneers has grown to over 1,100,000 and more than a quarter of a million worldwide have been added to the ranks of full-time preachers.. well, in 2013 they had an average of 950,022 pioneers, and in 2017 they had 1,249,946. looks like they lost some!.
also, the quarter million was a lot of turnover, which... wait for it... any thinking person would know!.
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They have even had to fudge the hour requirements over the years to get their increases.
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Our own "Russia" style letter writing campaign to request our private data!?!? Please share
by stuckinarut2 inwe all know of the tactic employed by the society to flood the russian govt with the mass letter writing campaign.
no doubt, one of their aims was to send a clear message of the governing body's views to the russian authorities.. what can't we all do the same to the governing body?.
with the advent of ever tightening data privacy laws occurring in many countries around the world, we now have a valid and legitimate reason to write the society!
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Something you might be able to do if a large scale effort doesn't take off is to research and create a document that helps people understand the process and who to contact and what countries it's applicable to. You could reach out to people with a following and put it up on sites like this and reddit as a first step. That would probably be super helpful. Many find this stuff confusing or don't know their rights. I'm all for keeping HQ busy with stuff like this.
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Our own "Russia" style letter writing campaign to request our private data!?!? Please share
by stuckinarut2 inwe all know of the tactic employed by the society to flood the russian govt with the mass letter writing campaign.
no doubt, one of their aims was to send a clear message of the governing body's views to the russian authorities.. what can't we all do the same to the governing body?.
with the advent of ever tightening data privacy laws occurring in many countries around the world, we now have a valid and legitimate reason to write the society!
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I love the idea, but getting exjws to participate in a coordinated effort is much harder than getting brainwashed masses to do so. I've had a number of ideas, but heck, I couldn't even get my local exjws to join me on my first Shunniversary. They all backed out but one childhood friend.
The number of people that are actually active in the community I think might be quite small. Most of the exjws I personally know, okay all of them, do no activism, aren't on any forums, just disavow it all.
Love the idea. I've though it would be cool if all of the shunned ones out here picked a meeting and we all just showed up to it all over. No signs or anything disruptive other than our presence, to signify that we're all still here. Executing this stuff is a whole other ballgame.
I'd love to see you get momentum and don't mean to be a downer, but I just want you to have a view of what you're up against. Like herding cats. (DOC beat me to it!)
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On this Fathers Day...
by babygirl30 ini have never really spoken on social media about my jw family shunning me.
i didnt even discuss or answer any questions about why they didnt come to my wedding, my birthday parties, why there are never any pics of them with me/us together.
until today.... today i woke up and had this insane desire to be open.
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Well done babygirl! I'm sorry that you had to have that happen to you for you to speak up about in the first place, but this stuff should be exposed at every chance. They hope we'll all just walk away with our heads down and never expose them for what they are. Take that power back and people will listen. People do care, and not just us as exjws, but people in general don't know about what they do in destroying families. You just did that for someone in all likelihood, you gave them the gift of knowledge. Good for you!
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Just went over 20,000 downloads, maybe this will help someone new here ...
by dubstepped inmy original podcast where i told my story, this jw life, has now gone over 20,000 downloads.
it is a 9 part series that i put out last year and people continue to find it and listen.
if you have someone that needs help processing what they went through as a jw, if you have friends or family that don't understand that whole part of your life, then please have them listen to this.
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Thanks Scratchme! That means a lot. I'm doing a lot of work right now to get these things on Youtube so that more people can find the stories, whether they listen there or go on to find my podcast and subscribe. I don't care how people listen, I just want them to listen if it's something that would help them. I've got plans do do more and more over time to reach a broader audience.
@lv101 - You're welcome. I hope it helps somehow.
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Apostasy movie is now avalable on Amazon.
by blownaway ini just bought a copy.
14.99 in usa.
buy a copy and support this movie.
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It was a good movie, though I agree with Whynot's post above. Those "guidance meetings" don't seem to exist for most. They don't truly care that much. There also wasn't enough apostasy in the movie, but honestly I like it like it was. I just don't think the title was fitting. I don't know, then again JWs see even that little bit of difference as apostasy.
I left a review on the movie here (no spoilers, unlike some reviews)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B07D57L99J/R1M7ZBL34QK64/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_rvw_6?ie=UTF8&cursor=6
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Just went over 20,000 downloads, maybe this will help someone new here ...
by dubstepped inmy original podcast where i told my story, this jw life, has now gone over 20,000 downloads.
it is a 9 part series that i put out last year and people continue to find it and listen.
if you have someone that needs help processing what they went through as a jw, if you have friends or family that don't understand that whole part of your life, then please have them listen to this.
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Dang Magnum, sorry you've been in such a tough situation. I hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. We were certainly limited in the employment department through our cult upbringing.
At least podcasts are free. They do take time though. I hope things are looking up.
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Just went over 20,000 downloads, maybe this will help someone new here ...
by dubstepped inmy original podcast where i told my story, this jw life, has now gone over 20,000 downloads.
it is a 9 part series that i put out last year and people continue to find it and listen.
if you have someone that needs help processing what they went through as a jw, if you have friends or family that don't understand that whole part of your life, then please have them listen to this.
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My original podcast where I told my story, This JW Life, has now gone over 20,000 downloads. It is a 9 part series that I put out last year and people continue to find it and listen. If you have someone that needs help processing what they went through as a JW, if you have friends or family that don't understand that whole part of your life, then please have them listen to this. If it's you, then I hope that you listen.When I told my story I wanted to do a couple of things. I wanted to have a sincere accounting of what I went through. I wanted to share it with others that I knew who were encouraging me to write a book. Since many of those people were never JWs, I made this specifically with the goal that anyone could connect to this and understand what we went through.I've had people share this with their spouses/partners that didn't understand where they came from in life or why they had these residual issues from it. I just had a person yesterday tell me that "Mike made me feel more normal", one of the greatest compliments that I could get. I've had people tell me that they disassociated after listening. I've had people go from PIMI to PIMO and even help wake up spouses. I get lots of emails from people that it has helped. I have moved on to my next project which is the "shunned" podcast where I help people to tell their own stories, but I should put this one out there more because I get so many great emails from people that have listened and were helped.So you can search for This JW Life on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google Play podcast, find it on other podcasts apps like Podbean or Podcast Republic, or stream episodes live from my site at www.thisjwlife.com . I truly hope that you listen or share and if nothing else maybe find some healing in processing your own story through it, even if I never personally hear from you.